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Researchers have discovered a white dwarf surrounded by a debris disk with 2 separate rings. It offers a possible glimpse of ...

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Sun news November 9: Auroras continue! More tonight at northern U.S. latitudes? Today’s top story: A powerful stream of fast solar wind kept buffeting Earth over the past 24 hours. Speeds peaked near ...

New analysis shows that 2 possible marsquakes detected by Viking 2 were in the same region as nearly 1,000 others detected by ...

On the morning of November 3, 2026, observers in parts of Asia, Australia and New Zealand saw the moon and Jupiter appear so close in the sky that the moon briefly blocked Jupiter from view.